Grants and Management Assistant (MCT)

The Melville Charitable Trust is seeking an enthusiastic and highly-organized Grants and Management Assistant to join the largest foundation in the U.S. exclusively devoted to ending homelessness.

The Grants and Management Assistant oversees the Trust’s grants management system and provides administrative and office support to the organization. The Assistant will lead the effort to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Trust’s grants management system and processes, support the Executive Director, and coordinate board and staff meetings. The ideal candidate will have experience in the nonprofit and/or philanthropy fields and strong knowledge of database systems.

The Grants and Management Assistant reports to the Executive Director. The Assistant coordinates with all members of the Trust’s staff team, and works closely with the Vice President – Programs on grants management.

Specific Responsibilities Include

Grants Management (50%)

• Manage the Trust’s grants management system (currently Salesforce), including maintaining data integrity and managing data reporting from the system.

• Take the lead in working with program staff and outside consultants to identify and plan for enhancements to the grants management system to improve grant flow and reporting.

• Flexibility and initiative to work both independently and as part of a team, and to adapt with the organization as it changes over time.

This position is 30 hours/week and based at the Trust’s Connecticut office located in downtown New Haven. The position involves occasional travel to Hartford and to the Trust’s Boston office. Competitive salary and benefits.

To Apply

Please send a resume and cover letter to jobs@melvilletrust.org by July 7, 2017.

ABOUT THE MELVILLE CHARITABLE TRUST

The Melville Charitable Trust is the largest foundation in the U.S. exclusively devoted to ending homelessness. We invest in proven, lasting, and cost-effective solutions that enable people with the least resources and biggest barriers to success to reclaim their lives. And where solutions have not yet been identified we support exploration and innovation to find the most promising approaches. Our grantmaking dollars are roughly split between efforts to end homelessness in our home state of Connecticut and in creating a better policy environment at the national level. Since our founding in 1990, we have invested over $140 million in to end homelessness for good.